AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (85W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +322%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Jan 2012

Navi

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

12

-

1408

Shading Units

768

88

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

85W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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